Kittles will be seen in the Australian-made film The Sapphires, which the Weinstein Co. picked up at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. He is also one of the male leads in Steel Magnolias, Lifetime’s remake of the 1980s classic being produced by Craig Zadan and Neal Meron and starring Queen Latifah, Jill Scott, Phylicia Rashad and Alfre Woodard. The movie will air this fall.

And the actor, repped by APA, is at the end of a stage run of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?